Big mistake – people spend loads of time shoving all kinds of audio goodness (and, depending on musical taste, badness) into their ears. Most notebook manufacturers don’t seem to care too much about speakers. So your swanky new notebook will output relatively crummy 720p imagery when you’re chatting to people. The only major negative (bar, touchscreen fans, the lack of a touchscreen) is what’s lurking in the top bezel: there’s no Face ID, and Apple’s bafflingly not upgraded the FaceTime camera. Video types should be pleased, though – you can adjust this display’s refresh rate to match footage when you’re frantically hacking to bits the next Hollywood blockbuster in Final Cut Pro X. 500 nits is enough for most uses, if not quite at the eye-searing levels some photographers might pine for. The change is subtle, but noticeable – everything’s a touch roomier.Īs you’d expect from Apple, the display is colour accurate and bright. It has a resolution of 3072×1920px at 226ppi (up from 2880×1800 at 220ppi) – all in a frame that’s not meaningfully bigger (unless you’re sporting a very tight case/bag set-up). Apple says customers constantly demand bigger screens, and so this unit shaves the bezels a bit to pack in a bigger one.
